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  1. Sen. James Lankford Argues Trump Is ‘Right To Put Troops’ In Iran

    Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) says President Donald Trump is right to put boots on the ground in Iran.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #DonaldTrump #Iran #JamesLankford #troops #UnitedStates #Us #USA
    newsbeep.com/458713/

  2. Senator Lankford's 2010 Deposition Statements Regarding Age of Consent

    U.S. Senator James Lankford made statements in 2010 about a 13-year-old's ability to consent to sex. This is being discussed now. Learn what was said.

    #JamesLankford, #AgeOfConsent, #Politics, #Oklahoma, #YouthCamp

    newsletter.tf/lankford-age-con

  3. Senator Lankford's 2010 Deposition Statements Regarding Age of Consent

    U.S. Senator James Lankford made statements in 2010 about a 13-year-old's ability to consent to sex. This is being discussed now. Learn what was said.

    #JamesLankford, #AgeOfConsent, #Politics, #Oklahoma, #YouthCamp

    newsletter.tf/lankford-age-con

  4. People are talking about old statements made by U.S. Senator James Lankford in 2010. The statements were about whether a 13-year-old could agree to sex. This came up during a lawsuit when he worked at a youth camp. His campaign has not commented.

    #JamesLankford, #AgeOfConsent, #Politics, #Oklahoma, #YouthCamp

    newsletter.tf/lankford-age-con

  5. People are talking about old statements made by U.S. Senator James Lankford in 2010. The statements were about whether a 13-year-old could agree to sex. This came up during a lawsuit when he worked at a youth camp. His campaign has not commented.

    #JamesLankford, #AgeOfConsent, #Politics, #Oklahoma, #YouthCamp

    newsletter.tf/lankford-age-con

  6. Whelp, I think it's safe to say political observers who thought the GOP-controlled US Senate might mitigate the homicidal awfulness of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are going to have to eat the L now; in the immortal worlds of Lando Calrissian, "this deal is getting worse all the time." What's worse than a nightmare class war theft and murder bill that will kill labor class Americans to make the uber-wealthy even richer? How about adding an *additional* billion dollars worth of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies boiling you and your children to death, courtesy of James Lankford, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.

    commondreams.org/news/gop-big-

    Senate GOP Adds $1 Billion Tax 'Giveaway' for Big O​il to Budget Bill

    "That provision was secured by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and the benefits would largely flow to companies based in his home state.

    As Dayen wrote, the CAMT is "a fairly clean tax provision as these things go." It currently requires companies that bring in more than $1 billion to pay 15% of the profits they report to shareholders.

    However, the Senate Republican draft would modify that calculation to account for "intangible drilling and development costs," which would allow companies to declare lower profits and put many of them below the threshold required to pay the 15% tax.

    According to Bloomberg, companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv, and Civitas Resources lobbied in favor of the bill. Lankford, meanwhile, received more than $546,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry—his top source of industry donations—between 2019 and 2024 according to OpenSecrets."

    My favorite thing about the Trump-era fascist Republican party is the way their open hatemongering and authoritarianism makes talking about the usual corruption and pro-corporate malevolence they still engage in seem almost quaint. Wait, no, I actually hate that about the Trump-era GOP. Back in the time before you could eliminate entire departments of the government because "woke," what Lankford is doing here by securing tax breaks for gigantic polluters in his district who also donate to his election campaigns, would be described as "pork barreling" by a mainstream media far too polite to just admit this is bog standard bribery and corruption.

    Of course, a billion dollars worth of tax credits is a pretty massive fucking barrel of pork, and as the article notes this isn't even the only billion dollar giveaway for oil companies Lankford is trying to engineer right now. Furthermore, this comes in addition to the obscene tax breaks the murderous GOP "Billionaire Bill" already gave giant oil companies and fossil fuel investors when it passed the GOP-controlled House. I guess now we know why the Senate instituted even deeper healthcare cuts after getting their hands on a bill they *still* can't get past the Senate Parliamentarian without just agreeing to ignore him.

    All of which doesn't even factor in that the industry bribing Lankford for what amounts to a billion dollar subsidy is actively boiling the planet to death and driving an unfolding climate catastrophe that is already claiming disproportionately labor class American lives. In the end, what this obscene budget reconciliation proves is that at almost every opportunity, and in so many different ways its hard to actually keep track of them all, the Republican party is committed to just straight up killing people so the rich can get richer; and in the second Trump era, they don't really give a shit if you know that either. I'd suggest it's a bold election strategy, but if I'm being entirely honest I don't think a politically-empowered American fascist movement that has already justified militarized repression, ethnic cleansing, and fascist violence against anyone who opposes their political program, is likely to allow anything resembling a free and fair election to curtail their burgeoning power.

    #GOP #Budget #USPol #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #BillionaireBill #BigOil #Oligarchy #ClimateCrisis #JamesLankford #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNet

  7. Whelp, I think it's safe to say political observers who thought the GOP-controlled US Senate might mitigate the homicidal awfulness of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are going to have to eat the L now; in the immortal worlds of Lando Calrissian, "this deal is getting worse all the time." What's worse than a nightmare class war theft and murder bill that will kill labor class Americans to make the uber-wealthy even richer? How about adding an *additional* billion dollars worth of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies boiling you and your children to death, courtesy of James Lankford, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.

    commondreams.org/news/gop-big-

    Senate GOP Adds $1 Billion Tax 'Giveaway' for Big O​il to Budget Bill

    "That provision was secured by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and the benefits would largely flow to companies based in his home state.

    As Dayen wrote, the CAMT is "a fairly clean tax provision as these things go." It currently requires companies that bring in more than $1 billion to pay 15% of the profits they report to shareholders.

    However, the Senate Republican draft would modify that calculation to account for "intangible drilling and development costs," which would allow companies to declare lower profits and put many of them below the threshold required to pay the 15% tax.

    According to Bloomberg, companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv, and Civitas Resources lobbied in favor of the bill. Lankford, meanwhile, received more than $546,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry—his top source of industry donations—between 2019 and 2024 according to OpenSecrets."

    My favorite thing about the Trump-era fascist Republican party is the way their open hatemongering and authoritarianism makes talking about the usual corruption and pro-corporate malevolence they still engage in seem almost quaint. Wait, no, I actually hate that about the Trump-era GOP. Back in the time before you could eliminate entire departments of the government because "woke," what Lankford is doing here by securing tax breaks for gigantic polluters in his district who also donate to his election campaigns, would be described as "pork barreling" by a mainstream media far too polite to just admit this is bog standard bribery and corruption.

    Of course, a billion dollars worth of tax credits is a pretty massive fucking barrel of pork, and as the article notes this isn't even the only billion dollar giveaway for oil companies Lankford is trying to engineer right now. Furthermore, this comes in addition to the obscene tax breaks the murderous GOP "Billionaire Bill" already gave giant oil companies and fossil fuel investors when it passed the GOP-controlled House. I guess now we know why the Senate instituted even deeper healthcare cuts after getting their hands on a bill they *still* can't get past the Senate Parliamentarian without just agreeing to ignore him.

    All of which doesn't even factor in that the industry bribing Lankford for what amounts to a billion dollar subsidy is actively boiling the planet to death and driving an unfolding climate catastrophe that is already claiming disproportionately labor class American lives. In the end, what this obscene budget reconciliation proves is that at almost every opportunity, and in so many different ways its hard to actually keep track of them all, the Republican party is committed to just straight up killing people so the rich can get richer; and in the second Trump era, they don't really give a shit if you know that either. I'd suggest it's a bold election strategy, but if I'm being entirely honest I don't think a politically-empowered American fascist movement that has already justified militarized repression, ethnic cleansing, and fascist violence against anyone who opposes their political program, is likely to allow anything resembling a free and fair election to curtail their burgeoning power.

    #GOP #Budget #USPol #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #BillionaireBill #BigOil #Oligarchy #ClimateCrisis #JamesLankford #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNet

  8. Whelp, I think it's safe to say political observers who thought the GOP-controlled US Senate might mitigate the homicidal awfulness of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are going to have to eat the L now; in the immortal worlds of Lando Calrissian, "this deal is getting worse all the time." What's worse than a nightmare class war theft and murder bill that will kill labor class Americans to make the uber-wealthy even richer? How about adding an *additional* billion dollars worth of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies boiling you and your children to death, courtesy of James Lankford, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.

    commondreams.org/news/gop-big-

    Senate GOP Adds $1 Billion Tax 'Giveaway' for Big O​il to Budget Bill

    "That provision was secured by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and the benefits would largely flow to companies based in his home state.

    As Dayen wrote, the CAMT is "a fairly clean tax provision as these things go." It currently requires companies that bring in more than $1 billion to pay 15% of the profits they report to shareholders.

    However, the Senate Republican draft would modify that calculation to account for "intangible drilling and development costs," which would allow companies to declare lower profits and put many of them below the threshold required to pay the 15% tax.

    According to Bloomberg, companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv, and Civitas Resources lobbied in favor of the bill. Lankford, meanwhile, received more than $546,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry—his top source of industry donations—between 2019 and 2024 according to OpenSecrets."

    My favorite thing about the Trump-era fascist Republican party is the way their open hatemongering and authoritarianism makes talking about the usual corruption and pro-corporate malevolence they still engage in seem almost quaint. Wait, no, I actually hate that about the Trump-era GOP. Back in the time before you could eliminate entire departments of the government because "woke," what Lankford is doing here by securing tax breaks for gigantic polluters in his district who also donate to his election campaigns, would be described as "pork barreling" by a mainstream media far too polite to just admit this is bog standard bribery and corruption.

    Of course, a billion dollars worth of tax credits is a pretty massive fucking barrel of pork, and as the article notes this isn't even the only billion dollar giveaway for oil companies Lankford is trying to engineer right now. Furthermore, this comes in addition to the obscene tax breaks the murderous GOP "Billionaire Bill" already gave giant oil companies and fossil fuel investors when it passed the GOP-controlled House. I guess now we know why the Senate instituted even deeper healthcare cuts after getting their hands on a bill they *still* can't get past the Senate Parliamentarian without just agreeing to ignore him.

    All of which doesn't even factor in that the industry bribing Lankford for what amounts to a billion dollar subsidy is actively boiling the planet to death and driving an unfolding climate catastrophe that is already claiming disproportionately labor class American lives. In the end, what this obscene budget reconciliation proves is that at almost every opportunity, and in so many different ways its hard to actually keep track of them all, the Republican party is committed to just straight up killing people so the rich can get richer; and in the second Trump era, they don't really give a shit if you know that either. I'd suggest it's a bold election strategy, but if I'm being entirely honest I don't think a politically-empowered American fascist movement that has already justified militarized repression, ethnic cleansing, and fascist violence against anyone who opposes their political program, is likely to allow anything resembling a free and fair election to curtail their burgeoning power.

    #GOP #Budget #USPol #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #BillionaireBill #BigOil #Oligarchy #ClimateCrisis #JamesLankford #Medicaid #SocialSafetyNet

  9. In an insightful critique by Oklahoma Voice, the disconnect in U.S. Senator James Lankford's comments on Medicaid reforms is stark. While Lankford suggests work requirements promote employer-provided health care, nearly half of Oklahoma's businesses lack insurance options. This raises questions about his proposed solutions amidst a rising uninsured rate and poor health outcomes. Congress must confront the core issues, not just add policies that may harm further. Read more: alternet.org/ok-republican-say #JamesLankford #Medicaid #Oklahoma #Healthcare #HealthPolicy

  10. What in the MAGA just happened and how will Trump #cope knowing that a REPUBLICAN Senator has gone rogue? Who was the rebel and what was the CAUSE he stood for that favored #JoeBiden, of all people? Senator #JamesLankford the coauthor of the #BorderBill Trump had killed. youtu.be/E7MJUf2hpdU?...

    🚨A MAGA Senator Just BLINDSIDE...

  11. An encouraging sign:

    Sen #JamesLankford, #Republican of #Oklahoma, also spoke w/NBC’s Kristen Welker, saying that #Putin was “a murderous KGB thug” & a “dictator” & that he understood why President #Zelensky of #Ukraine wanted assurances that #Russia would actually abide by any #ceasefire agreement that he signed.

    “Zelensky is rightfully concerned that Putin has violated every single agreement he’s ever signed & that he can’t be trusted. He’s looking for some kind of #security guarantees.”

  12. An encouraging sign:

    Sen #JamesLankford, #Republican of #Oklahoma, also spoke w/NBC’s Kristen Welker, saying that #Putin was “a murderous KGB thug” & a “dictator” & that he understood why President #Zelensky of #Ukraine wanted assurances that #Russia would actually abide by any #ceasefire agreement that he signed.

    “Zelensky is rightfully concerned that Putin has violated every single agreement he’s ever signed & that he can’t be trusted. He’s looking for some kind of #security guarantees.”

  13. An encouraging sign:

    Sen #JamesLankford, #Republican of #Oklahoma, also spoke w/NBC’s Kristen Welker, saying that #Putin was “a murderous KGB thug” & a “dictator” & that he understood why President #Zelensky of #Ukraine wanted assurances that #Russia would actually abide by any #ceasefire agreement that he signed.

    “Zelensky is rightfully concerned that Putin has violated every single agreement he’s ever signed & that he can’t be trusted. He’s looking for some kind of #security guarantees.”

  14. An encouraging sign:

    Sen #JamesLankford, #Republican of #Oklahoma, also spoke w/NBC’s Kristen Welker, saying that #Putin was “a murderous KGB thug” & a “dictator” & that he understood why President #Zelensky of #Ukraine wanted assurances that #Russia would actually abide by any #ceasefire agreement that he signed.

    “Zelensky is rightfully concerned that Putin has violated every single agreement he’s ever signed & that he can’t be trusted. He’s looking for some kind of #security guarantees.”

  15. 162) The Southern #border will be a significant issue in #Election2024.

    Up till #DonaldTrump's torpedoing of the bipartisan negotiated border bill led by Sen #JamesLankford (R), the issue of undocumented migration had been a potent campaign issue for the #GOP

    Now the Issue is one Pres #Biden and the #Democrats can campaign on as outlined in this video featuring a Sec. #PeteButtigied apearance on #CNBC ⬇️

    #Politics #USPolitics

    youtube.com/watch?v=LH0IOJXvz3

  16. 162) The Southern #border will be a significant issue in #Election2024.

    Up till #DonaldTrump's torpedoing of the bipartisan negotiated border bill led by Sen #JamesLankford (R), the issue of undocumented migration had been a potent campaign issue for the #GOP

    Now the Issue is one Pres #Biden and the #Democrats can campaign on as outlined in this video featuring a Sec. #PeteButtigied apearance on #CNBC ⬇️

    #Politics #USPolitics

    youtube.com/watch?v=LH0IOJXvz3

  17. 162) The Southern #border will be a significant issue in #Election2024.

    Up till #DonaldTrump's torpedoing of the bipartisan negotiated border bill led by Sen #JamesLankford (R), the issue of undocumented migration had been a potent campaign issue for the #GOP

    Now the Issue is one Pres #Biden and the #Democrats can campaign on as outlined in this video featuring a Sec. #PeteButtigied apearance on #CNBC ⬇️

    #Politics #USPolitics

    youtube.com/watch?v=LH0IOJXvz3

  18. 162) The Southern #border will be a significant issue in #Election2024.

    Up till #DonaldTrump's torpedoing of the bipartisan negotiated border bill led by Sen #JamesLankford (R), the issue of undocumented migration had been a potent campaign issue for the #GOP

    Now the Issue is one Pres #Biden and the #Democrats can campaign on as outlined in this video featuring a Sec. #PeteButtigied apearance on #CNBC ⬇️

    #Politics #USPolitics

    youtube.com/watch?v=LH0IOJXvz3

  19. During those remarks, Senator #JamesLankford of #Oklahoma could be seen saying: “That's true” while nodding his head. As #Biden spoke, [owned] *Speaker* of the #House Rep #MikeJohnson could be seen shaking his head in disagreement.

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #Republicans

  20. During those remarks, Senator #JamesLankford of #Oklahoma could be seen saying: “That's true” while nodding his head. As #Biden spoke, [owned] *Speaker* of the #House Rep #MikeJohnson could be seen shaking his head in disagreement.

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #Republicans

  21. During those remarks, Senator #JamesLankford of #Oklahoma could be seen saying: “That's true” while nodding his head. As #Biden spoke, [owned] *Speaker* of the #House Rep #MikeJohnson could be seen shaking his head in disagreement.

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #Republicans

  22. During those remarks, Senator #JamesLankford of #Oklahoma could be seen saying: “That's true” while nodding his head. As #Biden spoke, [owned] *Speaker* of the #House Rep #MikeJohnson could be seen shaking his head in disagreement.

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #Republicans

  23. That prompted boos & jeers from #Republicans “You don't think so? You don't like that bill? That conservatives got together & said it was a good bill? I'll be darned. That's amazing,” #Biden rebutted.

    “That bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more #security agents & officers, 100 more #immigration judges to help tackle the backlog of 2M cases, 4,300 more #asylum officers, & new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 yrs. What are you against?”

    #SOTU #law #JamesLankford

  24. That prompted boos & jeers from #Republicans “You don't think so? You don't like that bill? That conservatives got together & said it was a good bill? I'll be darned. That's amazing,” #Biden rebutted.

    “That bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more #security agents & officers, 100 more #immigration judges to help tackle the backlog of 2M cases, 4,300 more #asylum officers, & new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 yrs. What are you against?”

    #SOTU #law #JamesLankford

  25. That prompted boos & jeers from #Republicans “You don't think so? You don't like that bill? That conservatives got together & said it was a good bill? I'll be darned. That's amazing,” #Biden rebutted.

    “That bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more #security agents & officers, 100 more #immigration judges to help tackle the backlog of 2M cases, 4,300 more #asylum officers, & new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 yrs. What are you against?”

    #SOTU #law #JamesLankford

  26. That prompted boos & jeers from #Republicans “You don't think so? You don't like that bill? That conservatives got together & said it was a good bill? I'll be darned. That's amazing,” #Biden rebutted.

    “That bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more #security agents & officers, 100 more #immigration judges to help tackle the backlog of 2M cases, 4,300 more #asylum officers, & new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 yrs. What are you against?”

    #SOTU #law #JamesLankford

  27. 1 of the #Republican authors of the #border bill that #Trump successfully killed was seen mouthing: “That's true” as #POTUS Joe #Biden brought up the issue during his fiery #StateOfTheUnion address.

    At one point in the 68-min long speech, Biden said: “In Nov, my team began serious negotiations w/a #bipartisan group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill w/the toughest set of border #security reforms we've ever seen.”

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #JamesLankford #Republicans

  28. 1 of the #Republican authors of the #border bill that #Trump successfully killed was seen mouthing: “That's true” as #POTUS Joe #Biden brought up the issue during his fiery #StateOfTheUnion address.

    At one point in the 68-min long speech, Biden said: “In Nov, my team began serious negotiations w/a #bipartisan group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill w/the toughest set of border #security reforms we've ever seen.”

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #JamesLankford #Republicans

  29. 1 of the #Republican authors of the #border bill that #Trump successfully killed was seen mouthing: “That's true” as #POTUS Joe #Biden brought up the issue during his fiery #StateOfTheUnion address.

    At one point in the 68-min long speech, Biden said: “In Nov, my team began serious negotiations w/a #bipartisan group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill w/the toughest set of border #security reforms we've ever seen.”

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #JamesLankford #Republicans

  30. 1 of the #Republican authors of the #border bill that #Trump successfully killed was seen mouthing: “That's true” as #POTUS Joe #Biden brought up the issue during his fiery #StateOfTheUnion address.

    At one point in the 68-min long speech, Biden said: “In Nov, my team began serious negotiations w/a #bipartisan group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill w/the toughest set of border #security reforms we've ever seen.”

    #SOTU #law #immigration #asylum #JamesLankford #Republicans

  31. #JoeBiden is brutally shaming #Republicans for killing a conservative bipartisan #BorderSecurity bill.

    And #Republican Senator #JamesLankford from #Oklahoma was nodding approvingly. 😂

    This #SOTU address is 🔥!

  32. #JoeBiden is brutally shaming #Republicans for killing a conservative bipartisan #BorderSecurity bill.

    And #Republican Senator #JamesLankford from #Oklahoma was nodding approvingly. 😂

    This #SOTU address is 🔥!

  33. #JoeBiden is brutally shaming #Republicans for killing a conservative bipartisan #BorderSecurity bill.

    And #Republican Senator #JamesLankford from #Oklahoma was nodding approvingly. 😂

    This #SOTU address is 🔥!

  34. #JoeBiden is brutally shaming #Republicans for killing a conservative bipartisan #BorderSecurity bill.

    And #Republican Senator #JamesLankford from #Oklahoma was nodding approvingly. 😂

    This #SOTU address is 🔥!